This course focuses on the role of the mass media in contemporary public health campaigns. Most class sessions focus on the application of theory and research to the design of these campaigns. Earlier studies examining the role of the mass media in health campaigns indicated that the mass media played a small and rather insignificant role in changing health behaviors. However, more recent studies indicate that careful targeting combined with formative research often yield successful behavior change.

Examines theory and research on the nature and development of small group communication. Topics include leadership, interpersonal relations and roles, goals, and decision-making in multiple organizational contexts. Communication major or permission of instructor required for enrollment.

Examines theory and research on the nature and development of small group communication. Topics include leadership, interpersonal relations and roles, goals, and decision-making in multiple organizational contexts. Communication major or permission of instructor required for enrollment.

This course provides the student with basic knowledge about the discipline of public health. After receiving a philosophical and political orientation to public health, students will begin to acquire functional knowledge of the strategies most often applied in public health practice. Key content areas (such as HIV prevention, maternal and child health, reducing obesity rates, and reducing tobacco addiction) will become focal points for the investigation of these strategies.

This course provides the student with basic knowledge about the discipline of public health. After receiving a philosophical and political orientation to public health, students will begin to acquire functional knowledge of the strategies most often applied in public health practice. Key content areas (such as HIV prevention, maternal and child health, reducing obesity rates, and reducing tobacco addiction) will become focal points for the investigation of these strategies.

This course will provide students with an introductory understanding of public health concepts through critical examination of popular cinema and instruction in basic public health principles, disease principles, and behavioral and social interactions related to the movie topics. A combination of lectures, readings and film viewing will enable students to understand the relationship between behavioral, environmental, biological and other risk factors with disease, injury or other health outcomes. The effect of social, economic and health systems context will also be examined.

This course provides the student with basic knowledge about substance use and the principles of harm reduction. Course topics have been selected to provide students with an understanding of substance use through a public health lens. Topics will include an introduction to harm reduction, an overview of the history and criminalization of substance use, how substance use has changed over time, and a look at a variety of programs developed to address substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery.

In this course, we will learn about women's health, pregnancy outcomes, infant health, child health and development, and adolescent health. Through multiple activities, we will learn about maternal and child health through various public health lenses, including health behavior, epidemiology, and health policy. We will also discuss the life course perspective, and the ways in which maternal and child health topics are present in all aspects of public health.

In this class, students explore the wide variety of careers and professional settings where people with training in public health work. Through guest lectures and discussions with professionals in the field, students gain exposure to the roles and responsibilities of those who work in nonprofit, for-profit, and governmental public health; health care; health care administration; and other related fields. As part of this course, students will assess their own interests, skills, and personality to explore and describe their career goals and strategically plan for a career in this area.

Health care reform is often in the news, and everyone has an opinion on why the system is broken, how to fix it, who should have access to good medical care, under what circumstances, and what constitutes "good care." This online, multi-format course will consider what it has meant to be a good patient or a good doctor at various points in U.S. history, who was included or excluded in each group, how medicine became professionalized, and how people have organized around health issues.